when i tried to use rmerge2 nothing to do Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rmerge2 -efs world 2.rmerge2 -efsp world 3.rmerge2 -e portage Actual Results: 1.none 2.none 3.none Expected Results: some emerge :) * sys-apps/portage Latest version available: 2.0.49-r15 Latest version installed: 2.0.49-r15 Size of downloaded files: 230 kB Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org Description: Portage ports system * app-portage/rmerge2 Latest version available: 0.9.9 Latest version installed: 0.9.9 Size of downloaded files: 0 kB Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: robust version of 'emerge --emptytree' which supports resumption/forcing of builds
my emerge env coolgate root # emerge -vep rmerge2 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20030708 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 -build -static [ebuild N ] sys-devel/libtool-1.4.3-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r4 -debug [ebuild N ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 +nls [ebuild N ] sys-devel/m4-1.4-r1 +nls [ebuild N ] sys-devel/bison-1.875 +nls -static -build [ebuild N ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.3-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4-r4 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/texinfo-4.6 +nls -build [ebuild N ] sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.0-r5 +berkdb -static [ebuild N ] sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r3 +X -cjk [ebuild N ] sys-apps/cronbase-0.2.1-r2 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/man-1.5m +nls [ebuild N ] sys-libs/lib-compat-1.3 [ebuild N ] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 [ebuild N ] app-shells/bash-2.05b-r8 +nls -build [ebuild N ] sys-libs/readline-4.3-r5 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7c-r1 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.5-r4 [ebuild N ] sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5 [ebuild N ] x11-base/opengl-update-1.5 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/gawk-3.1.3 +nls -build [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21 -build [ebuild N ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r8 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.62 -selinux [ebuild N ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pam-0.75-r11 +berkdb -selinux [ebuild N ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3-r7 -selinux [ebuild N ] sys-apps/pam-login-3.14 +nls -selinux [ebuild N ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.12 +crypt +nls -static +pam -selinux [ebuild N ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.11 -bootstrap -build -static [ebuild N ] net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r2 -build -static [ebuild N ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.4-r1 +doc +zlib -bindist [ebuild N ] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/expat-1.95.7 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/ed-0.2-r3 [ebuild N ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.1 [ebuild N ] app-arch/unzip-5.50-r2 [ebuild N ] app-arch/cabextract-0.6 [ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 -3dfx +sse +mmx +3dnow +xml2 +truetype +nls -cjk +doc +ipv6 -debug -static +pam -sdk -gatos [ebuild N ] dev-util/dialog-0.9_beta20031002 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/grep-2.5.1-r1 +nls -build [ebuild N ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.1.35 [ebuild N ] dev-lang/tcl-8.4.4 [ebuild N ] dev-lang/tk-8.4.4 [ebuild N ] dev-python/python-docs-2.2.3 [ebuild N ] dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5 +ncurses +gdbm +readline +tcltk +berkdb -build +doc +ssl [ebuild N ] dev-java/java-config-1.1.5 [ebuild N F ] dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.2 [ebuild N F ] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.02 +doc +gnome +kde +mozilla [ebuild N ] sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r3 +tcltk +java +doc [ebuild N ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.2 +berkdb +gdbm [ebuild N ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.2 +berkdb +doc +gdbm -threads [ebuild N ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r3 +nls -bootstrap -build [ebuild N ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.2-r2 -static +nls -bootstrap +java -build +X -multilib [ebuild N ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r8 +nls -pic -build -nptl [ebuild N ] sys-apps/sed-4.0.8 +nls -static -build [ebuild N ] sys-apps/bzip2-1.0.2-r2 -build -static [ebuild N ] sys-apps/help2man-1.29 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0.91 +nls -build -acl -selinux -static [ebuild N ] sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r3 -static -build [ebuild N ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r15 -build [ebuild N ] app-portage/rmerge2-0.9.9
this doesn't look like a genkernel bug to me - moving back out to the pool.
same here
this tool is deprecated